Re: Insteon -- Any New Experiences?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

It will be interesting to see their prices and what kind of RF range the
units have. I've used Hawking networking gear and found it reliable and low
cost. If their Zigbee gear is equally reliable and priced agressively, it
will be a nail in the coffin for Z-Wave. Eaton had also proposed a similar
but more limited Zigbee line but they later delayed its introduction and I
haven't seen anything about it lately.

http://www.homeheartbeat.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=HomeHeartBeat/Pages/BuyIt

You obviously are biased against PLC but I and others have few problems with
X-10 and I doubt that there will be major problems with Insteon. You're
likely to find real deadspots with RF and they will be much harder to
troubleshoot and cure.

There are no "sweetspots" in household wiring. There are signal sinks which
are caused by other electronic gear that has a capacitor across the mains.
They are easy to find and easy to cure.

"fpmacko" <fpmacko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I reread my posts, but couldn't discern where anything I said could be
>misconstrued as distortion.  If I did so, it was unintentional.  At any
>rate, I'm eagerly awaiting the release of this new line of Zigbee
>products:  (http://www.hawkingtech.com/homeremote.php)  And I'm willing
>to pay a little extra for something that can demonstrate that it works
>consistently right out of the box.  If it does, they have my business.
>My time is too valuable to run around the house finding sweetspots in
>my AC wiring, and then later on wondering why module locations that
>once worked ok sometimes degrade to uselessness.  It happens with X10,
>and it will happen with Insteon as long as they depend on PLC.